Lemonds Debra (2 results)

Softcover. Condition: new. First edition. Lg. sq. octavo. 150pp. French wraps with photo-illustrated covers. Autobiography by Dale T. Lemonds, who in 1947 floor directed WTMJ-TV's first broadcast. Born in 1918, his stories describe growing up on a farm near the family sod house in Furnas County, Nebraska; life in 1940's California supervising the wing section of the first DC-4 at Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica; operating radio for the U.S. Army in Europe during WWII; marriage to Milwaukee native Marion Binzel, family life, retirement, stroke rehab and later years in Rancho Cucamonga, California. In addition to a first-person narrative that recounts the early days of television (19471980), there is a descriptive list of 33 shows Lemonds produced and directed at WTMJ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, including: The Man Next Door, Rhythm Roundup, Woman's World, Behind the Screens, What's New in the Kitchen, Time Out With Thomas, Kids Klub, Bowling with the Champs and the 1960 presidential-primary broadcast of Meet the Press, on which he assisted NBC's Frank Slingland. Portrays a lifelong passion for music, playing the trombone, photography and making movies, two of which are depicted: a murder mystery and a fishing trip in the San Gabriel Mountains. Sidebars: woodworking; cars; TV advertising; and working with legendary NBC director Harry Coyle on two World Series (1957 & 1958: Milwaukee vs. N.Y. Yankees). Profusely illustrated with photography, film frames, TV-station memo, scripts, sets, balops, hand-drawn floor plan and thumbnail sketches for title card and props. Frontispiece, dedication, table of contents, afterword, acknowledgments, photography credits and index.

Signed Limited edition. 1/60. Oblong Quarto. [1] 252 [1]pp. Black silk with photograph and gilt lettering on cover, housed in matching silk slipcase. All edges gilt. Tan endpapers. Translucent photographic flyleaf. With a 23-inch panorama of Constantinople in rear pocket. Handsome and extensive nineteenth-century photographic survey of the Islamic Near East from Morocco to Turkey. Illustrated with 374 photographs (many full page), arranged thematically. Primarily ethnographic albumen prints, color photochroms, glass slides and a ferrotype, the images were selected from the extraordinary 5000-image archive of Mohammed B. Alwan, Arabic language and literature professor. With eleven-page introduction by Stephen Sheehi, Sultan Qaboos bin Said Chair of Middle East Studies at William & Mary College. The work reproduces the hue, value, contrast and focus of each original print. Photo captions in English. Color map of the region and index of photographers at rear. An elegant and powerful view of life in Middle Eastern cities, villages, countryside, waterways and deserts, with uncommon and compelling images, including glass slides from Palmyra, a solar eclipse, sword play, and--please be advised--severed heads. Photographers include: Addullah Frères, American Colony, Arnoux, Beato, Béchard, Bonfils, Borgiotti, Bougault, Dumas, Famin, Frith, Garrigues, George, Gulmez, Hakim, Snouch Hurgronje, Iranian, Lehnert & Landrock, Lekegian, Leroux, Neurdein Frères, Photoglob Zürich, Reiser, Rubellin Pére & Fils, Sebah & Joaillier, Soler, A.T. Thompson, Underwood & Underwood and Zangaki. Chapters: Desert / Markets / Women / Cities / Music & Dance / Heritage / Men / Transportation / Religion / Government / Crime & Punishment / Professionals / Street Scenes / Domestic Life / Rivers & Seas / Village Life / Children / Education / Altered Images / Visions of the Maghreb / Photographing Jerusalem / Albums, Slides, Stereoscopes & Panorama About the collection: The 5000-image archive represents fifty years of work by distinguished European and native photographers, at least 33 of whom are credited, including Beato, Béchard, Dumas, Frith, Hakim, Iranian, Lekegian and Sébah. It was created over a period of forty years by Mohammed B. Alwan, professor of Arabic literature and culture at Tufts and Harvard Universities. Many of the collection's prints were acquired during travel throughout Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Alwan's native Iraq. The collection is available for acquisition; please direct inquiries to Eric Chaim Kline.